Dryopoa dives

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Family Poaceae

Taxonomy: Dryopoa dives (F.Muell.) Vickery

Synonyms: 6 (APC 2026-07-30)

Dryopoa dives subsp. A (taxonomic synonym)
Festuca dives F.Muell. (nomenclatural synonym)
Glyceria dives (F.Muell.) F.Muell. ex Benth. (nomenclatural synonym)
Panicularia dives (F.Muell.) Kuntze (nomenclatural synonym)
Poa dives (F.Muell.) F.Muell. (nomenclatural synonym)
Poa dives F.Muell. (nomenclatural synonym)

Distribution (APC): NSW, Vic, Tas

Profiles: APC, Flora of Australia, ALA, iNaturalist, NSW Flora, Vic Flora, ATRP

Traits

Top source datasets: ABRS_2022 (6), ABRS_2023 (13), Cheal_2017 (8), GrassBase_2014 (1), Jordan_2001 (7), Kew_2019_1 (1), Moore_2019_2 (55), NHNSW_2014_2 (1), NHNSW_2022 (4), NHNSW_2023 (6), Osborne_2014 (1), RBGV_2022 (7), RBGV_2023 (12), Sjostrom_2006 (4), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1), White_2020 (38), Williams_2011 (8), Yang_2023 (2), eFLOWER_Dun_2022 (2). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 56 traits from 179 records in 20 datasets.

Traits by category (click to expand). For categorical traits, the values are listed. For numerical traits, the mean and range are shown.

fire response

resprouting_capacity (categorical): fire_killed (6); partial_resprouting (15) [sources: Cheal_2017; Moore_2019_2; White_2020]
post_fire_recruitment (categorical): post_fire_recruitment (2) [sources: Cheal_2017; Yang_2023]

flower morphology

sex_type (categorical): hermaphrodite (2); monoecious (1) [sources: Jordan_2001; Sjostrom_2006]

fruit morphology

fruit_type (categorical): caryopsis (6) [sources: ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2023; RBGV_2023; Sjostrom_2006]
fruit_fleshiness (categorical): dry (2) [sources: Jordan_2001; Sjostrom_2006]
fruit_dehiscence (categorical): indehiscent (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]

leaf morphology

leaf_area (numerical): 8806.55 mm2 (5099.77-15396.11 mm2) [sources: Moore_2019_2]
leaf_length (numerical): 413.75 mm (105-550 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; RBGV_2023]
leaf_width (numerical): 15.67 mm (5-24 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2023; RBGV_2023]
leaf_dry_mass (numerical): 2649.33 mg (1465-4985 mg) [sources: Moore_2019_2]
leaf_mass_per_area (numerical): 288.42 g/m2 (247.52-323.62 g/m2) [sources: Moore_2019_2]
leaf_dry_matter_content (numerical): 0.28 g/g (0.19-0.33 g/g) [sources: Moore_2019_2]
leaf_base_shape (categorical): sheathing (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
leaf_lamina_posture (categorical): flat (2) [sources: RBGV_2023]
leaf_phyllotaxis (categorical): alternate (5) [sources: ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2023; RBGV_2023]
leaf_arrangement (categorical): scattered (2) [sources: ABRS_2023]
plant_photosynthetic_organ (categorical): leaf (5) [sources: ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2023; RBGV_2023]

life history

photosynthetic_pathway (categorical): c3 (4); c4 (1) [sources: Moore_2019_2; Osborne_2014; White_2020; Williams_2011]
plant_growth_form (categorical): graminoid (5); herb (5); tussock (4) [sources: ABRS_2022; NHNSW_2022; RBGV_2022; Wenk_2022; White_2020; Williams_2011]
life_form (categorical): hemicryptophyte (1) [sources: Williams_2011]
life_history (categorical): annual (3); biennial (1); perennial (6); short_lived_perennial (3) [sources: ABRS_2022; Cheal_2017; Jordan_2001; Moore_2019_2; NHNSW_2022; RBGV_2022; Wenk_2023]
woodiness_detailed (categorical): herbaceous (6) [sources: ABRS_2022; NHNSW_2022; RBGV_2022; Wenk_2022]
stem_growth_habit (categorical): erect (2); tufted (1) [sources: Moore_2019_2; NHNSW_2022; RBGV_2022]
nitrogen_fixing (categorical): non_nitrogen_fixer (2) [sources: White_2020]
parasitic (categorical): not_parasitic (2) [sources: White_2020]
pollination_syndrome (categorical): abiotic (2) [sources: White_2020]
pollination_system (categorical): abiotic (1) [sources: Williams_2011]
dispersal_syndrome (categorical): barochory (1); epizoochory (2) [sources: White_2020; Williams_2011]
dispersers (categorical): mammals (2) [sources: White_2020]
flowering_time (categorical): nnnnnnnnyyyn (1); yyynnnnnnnyy (2) [sources: NHNSW_2014_2; White_2020]
seedbank_longevity_class (categorical): long_persistent (1); persistent (2) [sources: Cheal_2017; White_2020]
vegetative_reproduction_ability (categorical): not_vegetative (2) [sources: White_2020]
clonal_spread_mechanism (categorical): non_clonal (1) [sources: Williams_2011]
bud_bank_location (categorical): bud-bearing_root (1) [sources: Moore_2019_2]

seed morphology

seed_dry_mass (numerical): 1.75 mg (1.75-1.75 mg) [sources: Kew_2019_1]
seed_length (numerical): 5.5 mm (5.5-5.5 mm) [sources: Jordan_2001]
seed_width (numerical): 2 mm (2-2 mm) [sources: Jordan_2001]

whole plant morphology

plant_height (numerical): 2.67 m (1-3 m) [sources: GrassBase_2014; NHNSW_2023; RBGV_2023]
plant_physical_defence_structures (categorical): absent (2) [sources: White_2020]

Sources

dataset_id	n_traits	n_records	reference
Moore_2019_2	12	55	N. A. Moore, J. S. Camac, and J. W. Morgan. “Effects of drought and fire on resprouting capacity of 52 temperate Australian perennial native grasses”. New Phytologist 221.3 (2018), pp. 1424-1433. doi: 10.1111/nph.15480.
White_2020	19	38	M. White, S. Sinclair, and D. Frood. Victorian Vital Attributes Database. database. Department of Environment, Land, Water and Planning, Victoria, 2020.
ABRS_2023	7	13	Australian Biological Resources Study. Flora of Australia, Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2023. url: http://www.ausflora.org.au.
RBGV_2023	7	12	VicFlora. Flora of Victoria, Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria. accessed on 6 May, 2022.. 2023. url: https://vicflora.rbg.vic.gov.au/.
Cheal_2017	8	8	D. Cheal. Growth stages and tolerable fire intervals for Victoria's native vegetation data sets. Fire and adaptive management, report no. 84. Victorian Government Department of Sustainability and Environment Melbourne, 2010.
Williams_2011	8	8	R. P. Duncan, S. E. Clemants, R. T. Corlett, A. K. Hahs, M. A. McCarthy, M. J. McDonnell, M. W. Schwartz, K. Thompson, P. A. Vesk, and N. S. G. Williams. “Plant traits and extinction in urban areas: a meta-analysis of 11 cities”. Global Ecology and Biogeography 20.4 (2011), pp. 509-519. doi: 10.1111/j.1466-8238.2010.00633.x.
Jordan_2001	7	7	G. J. Jordan. “An investigation of long-distance dispersal based on species native to both Tasmania and New Zealand”. Australian Journal of Botany 49.3 (2001), pp. 333-340. doi: 10.1071/bt00024.
RBGV_2022	4	7	VicFlora. Flora of Victoria, Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria. accessed on 6 May, 2022.. 2022. url: https://vicflora.rbg.vic.gov.au/.
ABRS_2022	3	6	Australian Biological Resources Study. Flora of Australia, Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2022. url: http://www.ausflora.org.au.
NHNSW_2023	5	6	N. H. of New South Wales. The Plant Information Network System of The Royal Botanic Gardens and Domain Trust Version 2.0.. accessed on 6 May, 2022.. 2023. url: https://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/.
NHNSW_2022	4	4	N. H. of New South Wales. The Plant Information Network System of The Royal Botanic Gardens and Domain Trust Version 2.0.. accessed on 6 May, 2022.. 2022. url: https://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/.
Sjostrom_2006	4	4	A. Sjöström and C. L. Gross. “Life-history characters and phylogeny are correlated with extinction risk in the Australian angiosperms”. Journal of Biogeography 33.2 (2006), pp. 271-290. doi: 10.1111/j.1365-2699.2005.01393.x.
Wenk_2022	2	2	E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant growth forms dataset”. 2022.
Yang_2023	2	2	S. Yang. “Unpublished data: Fire response traits scored from national and state floras and the taxonomic literature, University of New South Wales”. 2023.
eFLOWER_Dun_2022	2	2	L. Dun and H. Sauquet. “Unpublished: Floral traits for GAP taxa, University of New South Wales, Australia”. 2022.
GrassBase_2014	1	1	W. Clayton, M. Vorontsova, and K. H. &. H. Williamson. GrassBase - The online world grass flora. 2006. url: http://www.kew.org/data/grasses-db.html.
Kew_2019_1	1	1	Royal Botanic Gardens Kew. Seed Information Database (SID) and Seed Bank Database. 2019. url: http://data.kew.org/sid/.
NHNSW_2014_2	1	1	Royal Botanic Gardens Sydney. PLantNET: NSW flora online. 2014. url: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/.
Osborne_2014	1	1	C. Osborne, A. Salomaa, T. Kluyver, V. Visser, E. Kellogg, O. Morrone, M. Vorontsova, W. Clayton, and D. Simpson. “A global database of C4 photosynthesis in grasses”. New Phytologist 204 (2014), pp. 441-446. doi: 10.1111/nph.12942.
Wenk_2023	1	1	E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant life history dataset, University of New South Wales, Sydney”. 2023.